Author: Campbell, Ann
Biography:
CAMPBELL, Ann (b 1801: ancestry.co.uk)
The subscription list to this author’s one book of verse provides clues to her identity. Five of the subscribers, all taking multiple copies of the book, have Bishop as their surname, making it likely this was the author’s surname at birth. Ann Bishop married James Pendleton Campbell at St. Botolph, Aldgate, London, in 1822; one of the witnesses was Elizabeth Mackrell. Two of the subscribers have Mackrell as their surname. Ann Bishop may have been the daughter of James Bishop (possibly a grocer) and his wife Elizabeth Hopkins; they had married in Bermondsey, London, on 24 June 1792. Ann was born on 15 Sept. and baptised in St. Botolph’s on 7 Oct. 1801. There are two records of her marriage to James Pendleton Campbell. The first is dated 25 Feb. 1822 but that ceremony was performed without the express permission of her father while Ann Bishop was still a legal minor; it was repeated, now with James Bishop’s agreement, at Saint Botolph’s on 1 Mar. 1822. Their son, James MacGregor Campbell, was baptised on 9 Mar. 1823 at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch; the family’s address is given in the parish record as Holywell Street and James Campbell is identified as a grocer. A second son, Robert, was born on 16 Aug. 1825 but he died and was buried at St. Botolph’s on 25 Jan. 1828. Nothing more is known. (ancestry.co.uk 12 Oct. 2023) SR